Ebook: A More Perfect Heaven: How Copernicus Revolutionized the Cosmos

pt. 1. Prelude. Moral, rustic, and amorous epistles ; The brief sketch ; Leases of abandoned farmsteads ; On the method of minting money ; The letter against Werner ; The bread tariff -- pt. 2. Interplay. "And the sun stood still" : act I ; "And the sun stood still" : act II -- pt. 3. Aftermath. The first account ; On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres ; The Basel edition ; Epitome of Copernican astronomy ; Dialogue concerning the two chief systems of the world, Ptolemaic and Copernican ; An annotated census of Copernicus' De revolutionibus -- Thanksgiving.;Traces the story of the reclusive sixteenth-century cleric who introduced the revolutionary idea that the Earth orbits the sun, describing the dangerous forces and complicated personalities that marked the publication of Copernicus's findings.